RE: How to cite information in Wikipedia? (for a High School study guide)

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@umd.edu>]

> From: owner-VRTPALEO@usc.edu [mailto:owner-VRTPALEO@usc.edu] 
> On Behalf Of Julie Reizner
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 5:04 PM
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu; VRTPALEO@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: How to cite information in Wikipedia? (for a 
> High School study guide)
> 
> As scientists, I hardly think we can cite the reason for not 
> trusting a source as "it changes too often."  I mean, that's 
> what the creationists say about US.

But that is a different kind of change. I mean, one analysis might result in
a new phylogenetic arrangement of taxa, but it doesn't actually go back to
the old copies of the original journal article and replace the figure and
content! But Wikipedia articles do just that: the actual content for exactly
the same URL will change from day to day.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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